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...proud Atlantic Coast Conference, was whipped in its opening duel, by lowly Texas A.&M. Bad Bobby Knight's oh so good Indiana team, Big Ten champion, fell to Purdue. Duke, which was sixth in the A.C.C. standings, rose up to beat Kentucky, flagship of the Southeastern Conference...
...illiterate companions, who possessed in so much greater measure generosity, courage, endurance, patience, good temper and light-hearted gallantry. Among no other people have I felt the same sense of personal inferiority." He also shared the soggy life of the Madan, Shia Muslims who inhabit the reedy swamps of southeastern Iraq. His two books about these experiences have become contemporary classics: Arabian Sands (1959) and The Marsh Arabs...
...roulette wheels spun and players began placing their bets at the lakeside Annecy casino in southeastern France, a plainclothes police inspector tapped the casino director on the shoulder. "A message has come from Paris, monsieur," he said. "Your establishment must close within two hours." Before the night was over, France's gambling police had arrested 14 croupiers and charged them with stealing $700,000 from the casino in the past year...
...unstable Iran to a potentially unstable Afghanistan (though, prior to the invasion, it already had a Marxist government which came to power through a coup d'etat in 1978) and to an openly hostile China. Some experts, therefore, clearly trace this invasion to Soviet concerns for their southeastern borders and the increasing belligerence with their Chinese neighbors. While Soviet officials proclaim their belief that in the long run Afghanistan must be non-aligned and neutral, they do not give a convincing timetable on their intended withdrawal of troops, and, indeed, they repeatedly indicate that it will be slowed down...
Filartiga has run a free medical clinic in the Ybycui Valley in southeastern Paraguay for the last 18 years. He runs the clinic single-handedly, performing all operations alone, with the assistance of his wife, one assistant--last year, Elisa Kleinman, a Harvard medical student --and two peasant aides he has trained as paramedics. Open from 8 a.m. until late evening, the clinic provides the only medical assistance to the isolated countryside...